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The Narrow Road to Self-Government
“Are we already at the end of the evolutionary line for the self-governing individual human?”
Shareholder Value Fixation of AI and Robotics: A Recipe for Failure
New technologies are not the problem. It’s a system distorted by a flawed ideology.
The Pedagogy of Power
The ruling classes always work to keep the powerless from understanding how power functions. This assault has been aided by a cultural left determined to banish “dead white male” philosophers.
In Missouri v. Biden Internet Censorship Case, a Win and a Loss
A key part of a court order in a major Internet censorship case is reinstated, but other parts, perhaps more important, are vacated.
Injected Narcissism
If you could describe all of this in one word, what would that word be? “Me” Yep, “me” . . . in fact, “me, me, me, me, me, me.”
Meet the New Normal, Same as the Old Normal
Individual rights and freedoms are said to undermine the wider needs of society and the planet – in a stark turnaround – personal freedom is now said to pose a threat to national security, public health or the climate.
What if There Had Been No Coup in Chile in 1973?
If there had been no coup in Chile, there might not have been coups in Peru (1975) and Argentina (1976). Without these coups, perhaps the military dictatorships in Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay would have withdrawn in the face of popular agitation, inspired by Chile’s example.
25 Ornery Aphorisms by Edward Abbey
How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.
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